Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of us think the Russians are ahead of us in science. More than two years ago Dr. Jonas Salk offered the anti-polio vaccine. The great scientific achievements are those which ease human suffering and cure the mental and organic ailments which plague mankind...
...From Hanoi, Ulan Bator, Pyongyang, Peking, Sofia, Budapest and Warsaw, the great lackeys of the Communist world have converged on Moscow to attend the 40th anniversary ceremonies and pay homage to the backslapping boss of Mother Russia. It is homage fully, if ruthlessly, earned. Never in history has a human being exercised such power as Nikita Khrushchev. None has flourished it with such bibulous, somehow engaging effrontery...
...long time ago the editors of the Lampoon ruled out the exploitation of sex as a source of humor. In so doing, they finessed the happiest of human misadventures, and were faced with the problem of a substitute...
Upon graduation from Stanford in 1952, McCord came to Harvard to work with Professors Sheldon Glueck and Gordon Allport. Shortly after his arrival he became a section man in Social Sciences 6, later directed a section Social Sciences 112--Human Relations. He received his Ph. D. in 1955, and since then has been teaching courses in Criminology, in Modern Social Thought, and seminars on group conflict and theories of conscience. In addition to his teaching, he has handled extensive administrative jobs, at present being Assistant Secretary of General Education and Head of the Board of Tutors in Social Relations...
...McCord points out, "This is a new field. A scholar is not limited to pedantic trivial subject matter to uncover fresh knowledge. Even an undergraduate can make an original discovery." McCord is an example of the new scholarship, a man whose youth and consequent lack of preconception about human behavior, help him examine society by eclectically drawing from all fields of social thought in order to better understand and help the society itself...